Hermana Medeiros Texas Houston Mission: Week 33

Hey mommy!!

Haha yeah sister Ardmore walked in and that was the first thing she said to me :) haha man thanks for reminding me!!

How was your week? So this week was a week. It was definitly a week to rely on God and trust in him and the plan that he has for us and the people we teach. (When the time changed in the fall, they didn't realize it had until they arrived for church an hour early. So I messaged a lady who works with Shalyn and asked her to remind Shay it was day light savings time on Sunday.)

On Monday we went and visited this member in the english ward. Her daughter died at the end of January, it was a really unexpected sudden thing and she has been struggling. They don't have english sisters in their ward and so she asked someone in our ward to send us to her house. We ate dinner with her and we listened to her talk. It was really good. We ended up staying there for the rest of the night.

On Tuesday we went to a few of our lessons that worked out, we got a bap date for two of our investigators! The ones from Louetta :) can't wait for that! We saw one of our other investigators and we were ready to teach the restoration. We know that once we teach it, it will be something that she needs. But she ended up just talking to us the entire time. So we just shared a scripture telling her that we have a message for her that can help her heal from all the things that have happened in her life. We taught english for the elders that night and there were 7 people! It was really awesome!!

On Wednesday all of our investigators cancelled with us. We went to two members houses and that was awesome. We Went contacting that night and we had a guy tell us that his tree was his God...awkward...haha. We did some LDS.org time and that was well needed.

On Thursday we went to see our investigator again but i guess she forgot we were coming because about 10 minutes after we were there she told us she had to go and that she was going out with her son. So we didn't get to teach the lesson again. We finally got in with a family in the English ward that we have been trying to see for a while. She's been having a hard time since her boyfriend/husband got pulled over. We shared a couple scriptures and then we hurried to our English class. People didn't show up till 730. We taught the lesson that was about prayer and at first it was weird but by the time we were at the end of the lesson the four people that were there loved it. We had them write down a prayer and then we let them practice it. They were so happy once they learned it. I seriously will say this every time but I love teaching English! It really is so great! Man these people that come to English class...we both just want to teach them! I just want them to ask about something that we teach them and then we can talk to them more! After English class our appointment cancelled and we took some pictures of us jumping. We tried to get a hold of a few people but nothing really worked out there so at 9 we just went home.

We had zone meeting on Friday and i got to meet my mission baby sister! She is really sweet! She is from Riverton Utah.

On friday only one of our appointments didn't cancel and it was our dinner appointment. All of our appointments when we went to them and if they weren't home it didn't even phase us. But by the end of the night we both couldn't believe how many things had cancelled and we didn't know what else to do so we went to a store and bought face mask and ice cream and then we came home and planned while having our feet in the bathtub.

Saturday was a lot of fun. We went to a less actives to eat breakfast and that was a lot of fun. She has two cute little girls and they kept teasing each other. We then saw hermano morales and spent some time with him. He is just so sweet. We sang hymns with him the whole time we were there. I had monicas baptism that night so we went to the woodlands, it was a lot of fun! Man when ever we go contacting i always get the really awkward people! We had some really funny door contacting. When i feel awkward i act awkward! Haha rupp says i handle it well but oh my gosh ahhh it's so crazy i always get the awkward people!

Sunday was really rough with the time change. We both were dead! Church was really good and after church we ended up taking a longer nap then we meant to. We both fell back asleep after the alarm went off. We went and visited the lady we saw on Monday she invited us over this morning to have breakfast with her. So that is what we did this morning. We did so much this week. It was such a good week. We met some really awesome people while contacting and overall the week was really great. Sometimes we just have to have faith that God is preparing the people and that there is a reason when everything cancels.

We went contacting in a trailer park and at one house this lady invited us in and we shared a scripture with her and she loved it. She asked for the information for our church and we gave her the address. She is going back to Mexico today though. But she said that she wants to move here so that we can teach her one day. I wish we could have gotten her address in Mexico to send her some missionaries but it was just really great to meet her. We got a lesson with someone we contacted into and it was a pretty good lesson. We taught half of the restoration. There was a lot going on in the house and so we decided to wait to do the first vision. One thing that is really good is that she's never been baptized into another church! So that is one thing less to worry about when we start getting farther into the lessons.

Best moment of the week? when we went to an investigators house and we thought it was going to be really good but we actually just eneded up sitting there for 2 hours listening to her and her son fight and them trying to have us take sides. it was really awkward...

Best thing you ate? this morning we had eggs with bacon, beans habenero pepper sauce and home made tortillas. and pancakes Mmmm it was really good, best breakfast i have had in almost 8 months.

Best spiritual insight? yesterday in Sunday school we talked about prayer and one of the elders shared a quote that i remembered how much i love. It says, "when life gets to hard to stand, kneel." this week wasn't hard but it included a lot of prayers. In the end when i look back at last week it was sooo good.

Are you being a good driver? Lol! haha i try but man i hate tiwi! Especially when an 18 wheeler can go faster than i can go! I'm not the old person driver that everyone hates! haha i've made tiwi go off a lot. Just because the split second i stop paying attention to the speed i end up going 8 -10 over and we can only go 7 over. Ugh man tiwi is annoying haha

How is your baby missionary sister? She's good. She's really sweet.

Did you get chased by anything? haha kind of! We were by some trailers tracting and these two small dogs started running up to us barking, hermana Rupp literally grabbed onto me haha it was so funny, the dogs didn't do anything which made it even funnier. On Sunday night we had three dogs come running up to us barking and one of them tried to jump on us but we just walked away. Haha it's the best.

Plans for the rest of your day? We are just going to a few stores and then depending on what time it is when we are done we might go back home. We have three appointments tonight starting at 5 so we are excited for those!

Is that elder who had the companion in your area still around? Did he get a better comp? Yeah elder Mitchel is still here and yeah his comp is a lot better this time.

Easter is in just a few weeks! I can not believe that easter is coming up. Easter is on general conference and that is the night of transfers!

oh hey just some thoughts on a birthday present this year :) a mate cup and bombilla (straw) you can find them on amazon :) and also spanish scripture cases ones that are sepertae for the triple and then the bible. The ones that look like they are from a different country and they are really colorful :) just some ideas that i thought of this week!

I watched this video a few minutes ago and i love it! Please watch it!

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2011-06-8-book-of-mormon-testimonies?category=topics/scriptures&lang=eng

Yo se que el libro de mormon es verdadero. Por medio del libro de mormon podemos sentir mas paz en nuestras vidas. Estoy muy agradecida por el libro de mormon. Cada vez que yo lei este libro, aprendi algo diferente. Podemos saber la verdad de todas las cosas cuando leer, meditar y orar cerca del libro de mormon!